ground shark (ground shark)

The sleeper shark or gurry-shark, Somniosus microcephal us. groundsill, groundsel2 (ground's il, -sel), w. [Early mod. E. also groundsyll, grunsel, groun groundsill soyle, etc.; They first vndermined the groundsills , they beate downe the walles, they vnfloored the loftes, they vntiled it and pulled downe the roofe. Putten ham , Art of Eng. Poesie, p. 186. Will ye build up rotten battlements On such fair groundsels ? Middle ton and Rowley , World Tost at Tennis. In his own temple, on the grunsel edge, Where he fell flat, and shamed his worshippers. 2637 IMG:content-2724.png:[blocks in formation] 2. In mining, the bottom piece of a wooden gallery-frame.